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Wednesday, 26 August 2026

• Pnpm 12.0
  pnpm.io · Discuss

• Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
  economist.com · Discuss

• Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97
  news.jp · Discuss

• Getting video models to learn better, faster
  linum.ai · Discuss

• Laion Big Video Dataset
  projects.laion.ai · Discuss

• High-Resolution Imaging for Statistical Validation of TESS Planet Candidates
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026
  infrequently.org · Discuss

• Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
  businessinsider.com · Discuss

• Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
  mturk.com · Discuss

• Zohran and the Short Link
  iamwillwang.com · Discuss

• Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
  nhess.copernicus.org · Discuss

• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
  asahilinux.org · Discuss

• Stripe acquires Clerky
  clerky.com · Discuss

• WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI
  openai.com · Discuss

• What will be left for us to work on
  ICML.cc · Discuss

• Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker
  pantsforbirds.com · Discuss

• Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Product Development is being Rewritten
  revyl.com · Discuss

• IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
  newsroom.ibm.com · Discuss

• Infrastructure as Raclette
  lois.postu.la · Discuss

• US Designates Palestine Action as Terrorist Group: What the Decision Means
  moztako.me · Discuss

• 76% of 623 EU software vendors have no security.txt ahead of the CRA 24h rule
  cradrill.com · Discuss

• Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
  acceptmarkdown.com · Discuss

• The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023)
  gatesnotes.com · Discuss

• GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
  isgithubcooked.com · Discuss

• Super Curry Combat II Turbo – Legend Edition
  curry-combat-2.com · Discuss

• Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
  actinideinc.com · Discuss

• The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
  openai.com · Discuss

• A Thread-Register Decoupled GPU Execution Model for Efficient Tensor Computation
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Study Reveals UnitedHealth's Profit Margins Four Times What It Claimed [pdf]
  insurancewatchdogcoalition.com · Discuss

• The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada
  thetariffcost.com · Discuss

• An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
  lwn.net · Discuss

• Show HN: I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries
  foresightplanner.com · Discuss

• CDs vs. NIMBY
  betonit.ai · Discuss

• Graze Joins Flipboard
  graze.leaflet.pub · Discuss

• CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
  hotosm.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Build your own theme park
  magicpatterns.com · Discuss

• FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer
  fda.gov · Discuss

• Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies
  risklytics.ai · Discuss

• Tim Curry has died
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Tim Curry Has Died
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
  home.treasury.gov · Discuss

• The turbulent AI era is here
  gatesnotes.com · Discuss

• It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
  ssp.sh · Discuss

• Disruption with Some GitHub Services
  githubstatus.com · Discuss

• Nebula Sans
  nebulasans.com · Discuss

• WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents
  sreenathmenon.com · Discuss

• GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
  artificialanalysis.ai · Discuss

• VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
  blog.trailofbits.com · Discuss

• Who Makes Your Supplements?
  worseonpurpose.com · Discuss

• PageRank explained
  praveshkoirala.com · Discuss

• Take a Tour of SLAC
  www6.slac.stanford.edu · Discuss

• Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
  farmaction.us · Discuss

• Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?
  hnstats.com · Discuss

• Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
  twitterwebviewer.com · Discuss

• GLM-5.3-Flash
  z.ai · Discuss

• A Citation to Asimov
  bookandsword.com · Discuss

• Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants
  e360.yale.edu · Discuss

• AI Is a Harsh Mistress
  cacm.acm.org · Discuss

• A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away
  thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · Discuss

• France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
  cartefibre.arcep.fr · Discuss

• 11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey
  thehistoryblog.com · Discuss

• Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• AWS Acquires DuckLabs
  ducklabs.com · Discuss

• Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
  qwen.ai · Discuss

• A curmudgeon tries a language server
  entropicthoughts.com · Discuss

• Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here
  gatesnotes.com · Discuss

• X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
  theregister.com · Discuss

• LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements
  wiki.documentfoundation.org · Discuss

• Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
  blog.happyfellow.dev · Discuss

• Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Just say something people want
  gkogan.co · Discuss

• Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds
  bbc.com · Discuss

• U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers
  tomshardware.com · Discuss

• Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?
  theregister.com · Discuss

• The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958)
  archive.org · Discuss

• Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence
  var0.xyz · Discuss

• Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data
  france24.com · Discuss

• XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Banking Access Index – 19 US banking providers, 8 countries, CC-BY
  globalsolo.global · Discuss

• Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
  openstreetmap.us · Discuss

• RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
  lighthousenewsletter.com · Discuss

• The End of Programming
  pauldix.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
  rupertlinacre.com · Discuss

• Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
  openai.com · Discuss

Tuesday, 25 August 2026

• More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
  psu.edu · Discuss

• Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• Students prefer Gemini over ChatGPT and Claude for AI essays in blind tests
  studyarena.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
  economist.com · Discuss

• Queryable Executables
  fzakaria.com · Discuss

• Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
  sebsite.pw · Discuss

• XCancel also down, at least for time being
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
  sethmlarson.dev · Discuss

• Perplexity Portable Computer
  perplexity.ai · Discuss

• C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality
  da.vidbuchanan.co · Discuss

• FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
  fda.gov · Discuss

• Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents
  pgbot.dev · Discuss

• Dolly Parton has died
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
  nil.wallyjones.com · Discuss

• Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant
  judegomila.com · Discuss

• Water behind the watts: The hidden risk of powering data centers
  ceres.org · Discuss

• My Friend Aaron
  rorz.io · Discuss

• Starbase, LA
  spacex.com · Discuss

• Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
  blog.master.dev · Discuss

• Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler
  kurz.net · Discuss

• Run Minecraft in a Windows sandbox for computer use agents
  cua.ai · Discuss

• Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics
  dl.acm.org · Discuss

• How much of HN is AI?
  blog.coredump.cx · Discuss

• Behaviorally fingerprinting Ox Alpha's provenance
  ctgt.ai · Discuss

• Otto Dix, Nietzsche, and the Great War (2019)
  historytoday.com · Discuss

• AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth
  macrumors.com · Discuss

• Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
  e360.yale.edu · Discuss

• Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
  imkylelambert.com · Discuss

• MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it
  erathos.com · Discuss

• OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
  newsletter.semianalysis.com · Discuss

• Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike
  businessinsider.com · Discuss

• The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
  mckinsey.com · Discuss

• US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons
  forgeeks.net · Discuss

• France's tax agency got hacked (in French)
  cybernetica.fr · Discuss

• OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
  9to5mac.com · Discuss

• Solving the 1+N Query Problem
  acadia.engineering · Discuss

• Don't Wordle
  dontwordle.com · Discuss

• Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)
  modelscope.cn · Discuss

• How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
  library.hbs.edu · Discuss

• Quantum battery upends the rules of charging
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Why some US restaurants are banning tips
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
  link.springer.com · Discuss

• Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS
  fdeploy.com · Discuss

Monday, 24 August 2026

• Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
  dfarq.homeip.net · Discuss